Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
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Born (1707-04-15)15 April 1707
Basel, Swiss Confederacy
Basel, Swiss Confederacy
Died 18 September 1783(1783-09-18) (aged 76)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Education University of Basel (MPhil)
Born (1707-04-15)15 April 1707
Basel, Swiss Confederacy
Basel, Swiss Confederacy
Died 18 September 1783(1783-09-18) (aged 76)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Education University of Basel (MPhil)
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Leonhard Euler - Wikipedia
1 day ago - Leonhard Euler (/ˈɔɪlər/ OY-lər; 15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, music theorist and engineer. He founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made influential discoveries in ...
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About Leonhard Euler - EFMU: The Euler-Franeker Memorial University and Institute
January 6, 2023 - Leonhard Euler (April 15, 1707–September 18, 1783) was a Swiss-born mathematician whose discoveries greatly influenced the fields of mathematics and physics. Perhaps the best-known of Euler’s findings is the Euler identity, which shows the relationship between fundamental mathematical constants ...
Exactly how great was Euler?
Euler wrote something like 800 pages of new mathematical material a year for his entire 80 some year life. His productivity increased after he went blind, as he was no longer distracted. He was also prolific in other fields and people just forget about it. I think it was Laplace who said "Read Euler, read Euler, read Euler. He his the god of us all." There is so much; I wish I could remember more. He died of an aneurysm during a lecture. His final words were "I am dying". Yet another proven conjecture. I'm probably off on all my details here, but honestly I don't even mind. The man is mythical anyway. More on reddit.com
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3 weeks agoAny fun facts about Euler?
There’s an interesting nugget in Needham’s Visual Differential Geometry and Forms. He received a letter from a young mathematician outlining some work he’d done. Euler had already reached the same conclusion. He replied “I’ve deduced this myself. However I’ve decided not to publish so that you get the recognition you deserve.” More on reddit.com
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November 22, 2024Why is Leonhard Euler considered the "King of Mathematics", and Carl Friedrich Gauss considered the "Prince of Mathematics"
Just look at Euler’s Wikipedia page to see how many discoveries he made More on reddit.com
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January 20, 2024TIL Leonhard Euler wrote some papers on music theory. However, these papers were considered “too mathematical for musicians and too musical for mathematicians.”
If you name a topic there is like a better than even chance that Euler wrote a paper on it More on reddit.com
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Project Euler
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Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve. Although mathematics will help you arrive at elegant and efficient methods, the use of a computer and programming skills will be required to solve ...
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Leonhard Euler: The Blind Mathematician Who Saw ...
He invented graph theory by solving the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem. The puzzle asked: Could you walk through the city of Königsberg by crossing each of its seven bridges exactly once? Euler proved it was impossible, and his work was presented to the St.
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In applied mechanics, Euler was the first to derive the formula for the critical buckling load of an ideal, slender column and the first to solve the problem of the elastica. This work was published in 1744. He dealt with a column that is fixed at the base and free at the top.
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The Euler Archive
The Euler Archive is an online resource for Leonhard Euler's original works and modern Euler scholarship. This dynamic library and database provides access to original publications, and references to available translations and current research.
Encyclopedia Britannica
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Leonhard Euler | Biography, Education, Contributions, & Facts | Britannica
April 11, 2026 - Leonhard Euler (1707–83) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, one of the founders of pure mathematics. He not only made formative contributions to the subjects of geometry, calculus, mechanics, and number theory but also developed methods ...
MacTutor History of Mathematics
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Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics
Leonhard Euler was a Swiss mathematician who made enormous contributions to a wide range of mathematics and physics including analytic geometry, trigonometry, geometry, calculus and number theory.
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Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was arguably the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth century (His closest competitor for that title is Lagrange) and one of the most prolific of all time; his publication list of 886 papers and books may be exceeded only by Paul Erdös.
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tl;dr: Exactly how good was euler? How could you explain to a layman just how insane he was.
Im not a mathematician in the slightest, im not even an engineer or physicist (i study medicine). Its safe to say my level of maths isnt much higher than that of a highschooler (to give myself some credit, I did some extra math courses for fun and I know about the existance of jacobian and hessian matricies 😏). However, I do love mathematics as a field. Its such a beautiful language and for me i feel like sometimes its just the universe's way of showing art. I love watching simplified math videos (shout out 3Blue1Brown), but again, im aware its much more complicated than just pretty animation and fun proofs.
Ofc I've heard of Euler, I am aware how goated he is (tbh for me, anyone who can do anything beyond linear algebra is a wizard). I know the classic phrase "to avoid naming repitition, many math theories are named after the second person to prove it after euler". But, seeing as i dont study the field, i cant exactly understand just how insane any of his stuff was. I feel like its easier to grasp (on the surface level) how genius someone like einstein was because his discoveries are a little more flashy (you dont have to be a physicist to appreciate how insane in your head you have to be to figure out that light comes in lil packets which also is a wave, that also has energy oh and by the way, energy and mass are kinda the same thing, or that time and space is a fabric?????)
I know that not everything can be simplified (especially in maths, badum tss), but imagine you have to explain to someone who doesnt know what is a 3 pointer how insane steph curry is. Can someone explain to me some of eulers work and just how crazy it is in laymans terms. Like what did he actually do? How insane is it mathematically? What exactly made this man a legend?
edit: originally posted on r/math but i dont have enough community karma there, so im posting it here. I have a feeling that at least a couple people on this sub have sufficient math knowledge to help me
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Euler wrote something like 800 pages of new mathematical material a year for his entire 80 some year life. His productivity increased after he went blind, as he was no longer distracted. He was also prolific in other fields and people just forget about it. I think it was Laplace who said "Read Euler, read Euler, read Euler. He his the god of us all." There is so much; I wish I could remember more. He died of an aneurysm during a lecture. His final words were "I am dying". Yet another proven conjecture. I'm probably off on all my details here, but honestly I don't even mind. The man is mythical anyway.
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He's all the way up there with Gauss, Newton, Euclid, Archimedes, Riemann, Maxwell, Einstein & co. One of the most influential scientific minds ever. Modern mathematics and physics would be unthinkable without him.
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r/math on Reddit: Any fun facts about Euler?
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Hi! I’m doing a commemorative speech for my college class on Euler! Any cool fun facts about him that I could be aware before doing research?
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There’s an interesting nugget in Needham’s Visual Differential Geometry and Forms. He received a letter from a young mathematician outlining some work he’d done. Euler had already reached the same conclusion. He replied “I’ve deduced this myself. However I’ve decided not to publish so that you get the recognition you deserve.”
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I like the story of his last day (he was 76 years old): On 18 September 1783 Euler spent the first half of the day as usual. He gave a mathematics lesson to one of his grandchildren, did some calculations with chalk on two boards on the motion of balloons; then discussed with Lexell and Fuss the recently discovered planet Uranus. About five o'clock in the afternoon he suffered a brain haemorrhage and uttered only "I am dying" before he lost consciousness. He died about eleven o'clock in the evening.
Mathnasium
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What Is Euler's Number? A Beginner-Friendly Overview
February 26, 2026 - Euler's number, denoted as e, is the base for natural logarithms and one of the non-terminating constants we often use in mathematics and science, like Pi (π) which we use in geometry and the Golden Ratio (ϕ) we observe in art.
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Mathematica - Byron-Germain, Fibonacci, Pythagore, Euler and Lagrange Contests /// Preparatory Tests
Mathematica is home of Thales (grade 3), Byron-Germain (grade 4), Fibonacci (grade 5), Pythagoras (grade 6), Euler (grade 7), Lagrange (grade 8), and Newton (grade 9) Contests. These contests will be written on April 16, 2008.
Amazon
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Leonhard Euler: Life, Work and Legacy (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Volume 5): Robert E. Bradley, C. Edward Sandifer: 9780444527288: Amazon.com: Books
The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment’s most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world’s best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work.
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University of Kentucky
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Euler and the Zeta Function Author(s): Raymond Ayoub
Euler's ability to carry out in his head the most complicated analytical calculations.
SCIRP
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The History of the Derivation of Euler’s Number
September 27, 2022 - Discover the remarkable journey of mathematicians through history, unraveling the secrets of Euler's number, also known as Napier's number, in this captivating chronicle of mathematical triumphs.
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